Philippines

The Schindlers of the Philippines Dan Pines, jweekly.com. The Frieder brothers, Cincinnati Jews, made cigars in Manila and played poker with Dwight D. Eisenhower—and that was how 1,200 Austrian Jews were rescued from Hitler’s Europe.

Open Doors Nena C. Benigno, Philippine Daily Inquirer. In 1940, the last Jews to escape from Nazi Germany found no country willing to take them in until President Quezon of the Philippines invited them to live and work in Manila.